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11 June 1810 Influence 1
11 June 1810

Influence

1

Ch.

'. Influence convenient

5

In the situations here in question, influence of will over will is neither more nor less than corruption. But Corruption is a term never is understood to be with grammatical propriety /properly/ applied, but it carries with it an expression of disapprobation, applied /of disapprobation applying itself/ to the conduct of him at least who is considered as the party corrupted. Influence /Of the word influence the use/ can not be understood as uniformly expressive /indicative/ of /accompanied with/ any such mark /sentiment/ of disapprobation {so directed /excited/}.

Corruption is what /under its own name /that its name/ no man deems /finds/ it advisable to defend: when therefore he takes upon him to defend it, he discards /discarding/ and carefully avoids to employ this name, he looks out for some term of which it can not be said that it is inapplicable to the thing in question, viz. corruption, but which at the same time shall not bear upon the face of it any such stamp of reprobation /carry along with it any such note of disapprobation/: and this comparatively unobnoxious term /appellative/ he finds in the word influence,

In the language of the Greeks there was a word that signified as well medicine as poison. In the use of this word a convenience could not but have occasionally been found by poisoners.
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    '. Influence - convenience found in the word by those who defend /the defenders of/ the King in the case in which it is pernicious /undue/.

    The only species of influence - which can in any case with propriety be taken for the object of reprobation is the influence of will over will - in other words the only case in which the thing designated by the appellation of influence can with propriety be taken for the object of reprobation is that which /by will/ is exercised by will over will: against the influence of understanding over understanding as one can find any thing to object: no demand for any thing to be said in defence of it can therefore be found by any one.

    Yet /Meantime/ It is without any intimation given of this distinction of the limitation[?] that results /resulting/ from it, that influence continues to be attached, that influence continues to be defended, to be apologized for of defended.

    In this state of things to those to whose lot it falls to him[?] to act or speak in defence of influence in the case or cases if such there be in which the /a/ thing called influence any such apellant as undue, sinister, or mischievous /or corrupt/ is with propriety applied, the ambiguity here generality and ambiguity here in question affords no small advantage.
  • Title: [11 June 1810 Influence Ch.]
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    Influence

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    '. Influence convenient

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    Rule for the use of deceivers. When under its proper and specific name a thing which you mean /have occasion/ /propose to yourself/ to defend is too odious to be defensible, look up carry your eye over /take in hand/ that chain of generic and specific terms to which the word belongs, and carry your eye upwards till you find some word which together with the thing that is thus odious, /is understood to/ comprehends in its signification some other that is not odious. If not only not odious, but by reason of the /its/ innocuousness not capable of being rendered so, so much the better: so much the better still, if by reason of its beneficialness or from any other cause, it is positively popular - an object of general approbation.

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  • Title: [21 Jan y. 1810 Parl y. Reform]
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    '. Influence why used

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    To apply to the particular case here in question let us now apply /apply now/ this general direction to the particular case here in question.

    The sort of influence here in question having as above been shewn to be sinister, corruption the term commonly applied to it is properly applied to it /ordinary appellation given to it, is accordingly a /the/ proper one/. But so generally is the mischievousness of the thing felt at least, if not to an equal extent clearly and distinctly understood, that to the idea of the thing itself the ideas of disapprobation and censure are /have/ by this its denomination been attached to it and are presented along with it.

    If the thing in question be any thing that you are defending Corruption is therefore not a word /an appellation/ by which at the time you are defending it you can consistently with the rules of common precedence /consistently with such design/ think of designating it, nor consequently by which you are ever disposed to designate it.

    You therefore look out for some appellation which though capable and without any impropriety of being employed to designate this pernicious and indefensible practice, is also applicable and without impropriety if possible to the designation of another /some other/ practice which so far from being indefensible shall be is[?] to the view of every body salutary and even necessary.

    In the present instance fortunately for this your purpose in the present instance a word that fits your purpose /it/ to a hairs breadth is /craves your acceptance, viz./ the word influence.